Gongwer News Service reports the Common Core repeal bill HB 597 was voted out of committee yesteriday on a 7-2 vote with no amendments. All seven Republicans on the committee voted for moving the legislation while the only two Democrats in attendance dissented.

The bill is now set to go before the full House during the November lame duck session. It is unclear at this point if the bill’s sponsors, Rep. Matt Huffman and Rep. Andy Thompson, have the 50 votes necessary to pass the bill. It can’t hurt that Speaker William Batchelder supported the bill in committee.

Gongwer News Service quoted Huffman,

“I can’t say as I’m standing right here that there are 50 votes in our caucus. We’re going to start working the bill, start putting people into five categories – ‘yes,’ ‘lean yes’ – and if we can get 50 votes we’re going to put in on the floor.”

Ohioans who oppose Common Core can play a major role in ensuring HB 597’s passage by calling their State Reps and finding out where they stand on the bill.

I cannot find how we got Common Core in Ohio in the first place. I hope they can get it repealed in any case.

I think that Common Core would be good if it really included only the topical areas, and in particular contained important stuff for life instead of details like how to subtract by adding. Some topics I propose are:

Reading the US Constitution, and understanding what it says. Understanding that the First Amendment is absolute, not a freedom that applies only sometimes, and that the Second Amendment is there to defend it and the other 9.

Mandatory gun safety training. With more firearms than people in the US, this safety needs to be done. Also done by NRA instructors, not by someone who holds the gun backwards.

Checking and saving accounts. Kids know credit cards too well today. They need to learn how to spend their own money, not just buy on “credit”.

There is no such thing as free lunch. Every “free contraceptive” is paid for by someone else. It is NOT free.

I could continue this list for many more items, but these will do for a start.

Julie Baker
November 6, 2014 at 4:51 pm

Common Core was funded by Bill Gates who donated billions to a group of liberalists to write the program. When the states accepted all this funding for schools from the Obama administration they had to agree to accept Common Core, which was not written yet….therefore not passed by congress or the senate let alone at the state level for review first, before implementing the garbage into our schools for our kids. One fed up mom of 4

A historian cannot find how we got CCSS? It’s quite simple – and started back in 2009 and 2010 with hearings throughout the state from the Ohio Board of Education, hearings in the Education Committees in the House and Senate, and local adoption of CCSS by school boards throughout the state of Ohio.

The legislature passed a law in the last general assembly that all Ohio children must learn about and read the US Constitution, founding documents, etc.

What I find more often than not is that people who are against common core and think they have these other great ideas simply are not aware of what has already been done.

Michelle
November 8, 2014 at 10:29 pm

How about this for a wonderful, brilliant idea? Give education back to state control so states can determine educational standars and parents can have input at the local level. Common core puts education of our children directly in the hands of the federal government. Just ask a vet waiting for medical treatment how that is working for him…..

Donald York
November 6, 2014 at 3:22 pm

My state Represenative Jim Buchy is as far as i know, against Common Core. I will re check with him again to make sure where he stands now.